The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-24
DRINKS OF ALL NATIONS.
THE EASILY GOVERNED NATIONS
DRINK NO STRONG LIQUORS.

Went Around the World on Bicycle.
GuzzlinS Habits of the Aggressive Ma
tions.
Taken all in all, perhaps the English
residents in India spend more money for
drink than any other people in the world.
Plenty Of people are, of course, ready to
condemn this sort CT thing, and say the
Anglo-Indians ought TO quench their thirst
with non-intoXicants. More lemonade aud
less brandy and champage, it is claimed,
would materially lessen the rate Of NOR
tally from enlarged spleen, the bane Of
Anglo-Indian life. This may be strictly
true, but the fact remains that ners
handful Of hard drinking Britons are adj
ministering the affairs Of 200, ,000, 900 prac-
tically non-drinking people.
Some Of the natives Of India consume
more or less &rr;lck and palm todGE. but
the Bral:mins, the gcnIleSt and easiest
governed; people III tic world, drink moth
ing stronger than water Tie only tribe
of people in India who drink TO excess are
the Eats Of the FunjGb. The festive Jat
gets drunk on ;:rruci,. and iEdulgeS in
manly sports like 4 civilized being. On
the field Of battle he Is equal 10 round
dozen nOn-drinking llnGGCs. ard forms
today the flower OF the native British-iu-
dian army. He it was tllat stood firmly
by the English during the ,nutiny. and
performed prodigics Of va!or scarcely
second to Tommy Atkins himself. He
calls the water drinking natives OF Dude
and Bengal ''poorbeahs, and is superior
to the;a III every manly attribute.
NOhaOlnNn(9n countries Carr little
alcohol is consumed in proportion to the
number Of peoHIe. The Koran denies the
seductive pleasures of its material para
disc to MUsSumans who indulge in the
flowing bowl OF Bacchus here below. The
Shiahs are considered the Catholics of the
Mohammc;lan religion. The whole Per
sian nation belong to the Shah faith. Its
10000, 900 CT people are governed with the
same ease Us the same number of sheep
might be by few officials who care moth
ing for their welfare except to squeeze
them like an orange whenever they feel
ike it. The l0.GG0.0 0GO never touch any
thing Intoxicating from one years end to
another. The governing few consume raw,
fiery arr2c!l by the pint daily in wanton
disregard of the Koran and its teachings.
The village khan and subordinate COVER
nor Of 4 province keeps by him a stock of
arrack and drinks from half pint to
pint with his midday meal to stimulate
his appetite and make himself feel boozv
while eating, and is frequently put to bed
limp as q diS!!rag by his retainers at night.
The JaDs are the most encouraging eX-
ampleS that lie east presents of natiou
progressing ..on ASiatc to an European
plane of civilization. They bid fair ere
many years 10 he more European in their
habits than the majority Of Europeans
themselves. One wouldn't care to assert
that the vast quantity of sake consumed
by the japanese has anything to do with
their superiority in this particular over all
other Asiatics. + am merely pointing out
facts, leaving the reader TO draw his or her
own conclusions therefrom.
No nation in Asia drinks so persisteutly
and steadily as do the japanese The
average Jap consumes about half pint
of sake or rice beer with each meal-a
pint and half per day-saying nothing
about further Social indulgence in the
evening. Both men and women drink
sake by the pint daily, and think no harm
Oft, either. At meal times the sake is
served up in slender, big ne ;ked earthen-
ware bottles, holding about a pint. The
fayorite way is to drink it warm. 1t =
usually warmed by setting the bottle q
boiling water for while before putting q
on the table. Rice beer Is rather c.
ceptive name to give sake, as it resemble
liquor more than beer, both in color, cor
sisuency and intoxicating property. Ia
the consumption Of alcohol the Japs, as
nation, rank way ahead of any other
Asiatic country. In addition to SAKE,
they are also rapidly coming to the fc"e
ss consumers Of beer and brandy anr?
whisky. Their consumption of these
beverages keeps a curiously even pace
with their progression toward what we
are pleased to consider our own higher
plane of civilization. When they first be-
gan to think of wearing European clothes
they contcnted themselves with import
ing French brandy and English and Mil
waukee beer. Now, however, the gov
ernment compels all its officials to adopt
European clothes, and the upper crust So
ciety at Toxic are far from being alone in
Europeanizing their habits and costumes.
Consequently the JapS have commenced
brewing their own beer and making q
very good imitation Of French brandy.
The Chinese as nation consume very
little intoxicating drink, although they
make a beverage from rice called ''torri''
almost the counterpart Of the sake Of
Japan Whepever there has been war
between the two nations the Japs have in
variably wallcped John Chinaman almost
as thorouGily as the arrack drinking Jats
of the PuniaD were wont to make things
warm for the total abStaining uindoos in
'57, aid before.
The Turks are 2 nation that drink next
to nothing of q stimulating character, I'M
less tiny cups OF strong black coffee may
be so considered. AS Mohammedans they
are less sanctimOnioUS but more consistent
than the PerSians. The Osmanli official
sometimes indulges in mastic, but if he
does, he consumes it in the guise of medi-
cine, the prohibitive voice Of the Koran
not including alcohol used as medicine
The Turks are brave and warlike. and if,
when their star Of empire was III the
ascerdancy and their crescent banner
foated over half Europe, they had for
saken the rrnhib;tivc tencts of the Koran
and went imlo brewing and drinking beer
and whisky. who knows but that they
might lie occupying Moscow today instead
of being @ul!dozcd by the Russians?
The Russians are q nation OF hard
drinkers Nclika is consumed by the Mus
covite peas;atry in vast quantities. The
moujik's IDEA Of 4 holiday is TO get skin
full Of vodka, and then lay Gown and
hang on t" the ground. This laudable
performance is gone through with by the
Russian peasant as often as he can pro-
cure the Necessary quantity of vodka. lie
has L saints day 10 keep almost three
hundred and sXty-five times ;ear. and
the Only thing that prevents him from
celebrating every one Of them Ey filing
himself up with vodka is the necessity Of
making lis living and the lack Of money
to thus indulge lis appetite With ali
this orc Tou!t! naturally expect to find
the coU"ycy GcinG to tie devil and dete-
rior;l,:on. This fate. however, we find
reserved for the total a5s,ainiIg Turks,
While the Russians make more and mora
noise il Ike world. aG,! spread out anc
are thought hy many TO be Tie coming
v.atiOn--fiolN&s Stevens in New York
sun.